Table 5.

Separate analyses for male adolescents: Path coefficients for the parallel mediation models, separate models for maternal and paternal chronic illness.

	Maternal chronic illness (N = 441)			Paternal chronic illness (N = 440)
	Coeff.	95% CI	P-value	Coeff.	95% CI	P-value
Total effect (c)	2.985	−1.465 to 7.434	0.188	0.736	−4.261 to 5.733	0.772
Direct effect (c')	2.476	−1.945 to 6.897	0.272	−1.017	−6.029 to 3.994	0.690
a1	−0.214	−0.462 to 0.034	0.091	−0.546	−0.820 to −0.272	>0.001
a2	−0.164	−0.436 to 0.108	0.237	−0.464	−0.767 to −0.162	0.003
a3	−0.204	−0.041 to 0.448	0.103	0.072	−0.346 to 0.202	0.605
b1	−1.402	−3.714 to −0.911	0.234	−1.533	−3.866 to 0.800	0.197
b2	−1.877	−3.990 to −0.236	0.082	−1.904	−4.022 to 0.214	0.078
b3	0.485	−2.187 to 1.217	0.576	0.456	−2.159 to 1.248	0.600
Indirect effects a
Total indirecta effect	0.509	0.575 to 1.636		1.753	0.288 to 3.463
a1b1	0.230	−0.359 to 1.224		0.837	−0.661 to 2.544
a2b2	0.308	−0.125 to 1.110		0.884	−0.069 to 2.253
a3b3	−0.099	−0.751 to 0.410		0.033	−0.573 to 0.536

^aIf the 95% CI did not contain zero, the effect was considered statistically significant. The mediation models were adjusted for adolescent sex, parental SES and parental divorce. a₁-a₃ are regression coefficients for X₁-X₃, respectively. b₁-b₃ are regression coefficients for M₁-M₃, respectively.